Hi Donald Perhaps the setting is the "default-tiddler-location" field of tiddlywiki.files:
https://tiddlywiki.com/#tiddlywiki.info%20Files It behaves much as you describe, forcing changed tiddlers to be written to a different directory. Best wishes Jeremy -- Jeremy Ruston jer...@jermolene.com https://jermolene.com > On 14 Mar 2020, at 03:21, Donald Coates <digital...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thank you Josh for taking the time. I am a big fan of that file yes and use > it to keep 'subwikis' but sadly this time it wasn't the case. I do remember > long ago there was a 'feature' for testing where all changes were saved in an > outside directory to make it easy to return to a clean slate for testing > purposes but I can't for the life of me remember where the outside folder is, > and who knows if that is even a feature any more. > > I was using Arlen's TiddlyServer and switched to the prerelease's tiddly.js > to load the wiki and there must have been something in that switch, possibly > something in the tiddlywiki.info that I just couldn't pick up on. I just > started a new, empty directory and '--init server' command with the > prerelease tiddly.js then moved all my tiddlers over and everything was > working again. One of my favorite things about using the nodejs version. > > Thanks again and I'll post here if I find the dang things. I need to brush > up on my linux commands for finding stuff. > >> On Thursday, March 12, 2020 at 7:25:15 PM UTC-4, Joshua Fontany wrote: >> Did you setup a `$:/config/FileSystemPaths` tiddler? >> >> See https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/#Customising%20Tiddler%20File%20Naming >> >> Best, >> Josh F >> >>> On Wednesday, March 11, 2020 at 5:31:35 AM UTC-7, Donald Coates wrote: >>> so I was hacking away with my test wiki and unwittingly, if I remember >>> correctly which is rare, activated some feature by either upgrading to the >>> pre release or clicking something or who knows what wherein new tiddlers >>> are saved to an outside location so changes made don't break the wiki. >>> >>> anyone know where this folder is? >>> >>> In other words when I make a new tiddler it is still there when I stop and >>> restart the nodejs server but it is not in the tiddlers directory. >>> >>> I seem to remember this happening before but now my coronavirus-news >>> saturated brain can't seem to find it. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/1939868c-9e99-4ce4-ae45-64ef39dc0faa%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/FE2A8CE6-0ED8-43EB-8D9C-0946CB630D34%40gmail.com.
